PLEASE! Learn proper , ethical target retrieving - STOP hurting the parks!

[Silver Fox]

Well Silver fox,those people should not be in Central Park detecting.It's not on the permit.Due to it's age and location,it's probally a super site to hunt,but you're not supposed to.I wish it was on the permit,I would pounding it myself.HH

They're not detecting in Central Park now because the PEP has stepped up their patrolling. I was talking up to around 2000 when I stopped and decided it was time to obey the Rules and Regulations. There may not be a restriction against metal detecting but there are restrictions about disturbing the park grounds. I haven't seen a detectorist in the park in years although I also don't go in the park that much anymore. I do live half a block from it but I'm more of a homebody person now.

It IS a super site for detecting as there are still thousands of old coins+ in there. I recently wrote a letter to the Parks Department saying that detecting should be allowed in certain large fields where it's just bare soil due to the sports activities. There, I have no qualms about the size or depth of the hole or the plug or any of the bitchin' I've done about grassy fields.

 

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[Silver Fox]

Bring your probe and I'll bring an extra shovel for when you give up. The sights I hunt are either full of gravel, roots or rocks. I can dig a plug with a relic shovel that will not kill the grass and leave less sign of being dug than most can with a Leshe. I am not knocking your approach nothing disturbs me more than a messy attempt to retrieve a target. What bothers me is one person thinking they are the only one doing it right.

Don't take it personal, my rant was aimed at public parks such as the one in the video. If one is in the area you are in one would have to do the same thing you do. You know you couldn't walk into a public park carrying a relic shovel or those tools that look like a small bazooka that pulls up a huge plug, etc. My rant was aimed at detectorists that don't seem to look at their depth indication, or pinpoint to above the location of the item and, therefore, have to make a big hole to find something that was in the center in the first place. Public parks, my only concern. I dug thousands of coins from Central Park and you rarely could tell where I dug them.